new york rap

Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz While the narrative for the last decade has painted The Big Apple as having fallen off musically, you can’t deny the city’s energy. One outlet has taken the time to catalog the tunes that shaped the town. This week the staff at Vulture has seemingly put their neck on the chopping block in an effort to shine some limelight on New York City’s Rap scene. The site has just released a “Top 100 Songs That Define New York Rap” list. Before they did the formal reveal they gave readers some context regarding how they selected the music and the approach. “To decide the “best” of New York rap would only tell half the story — an uneven one — so instead, we invited a team of writers to rank a new type of local canon: 100 songs that capture a bigger pict...